How can you even compare the two? Our taxes go to fund the military, which, included, is healthcare for those of our soldiers who defend our country and get injured.
That is so unbelievably different from people that have no job and thus can't afford healthcare at all, to those dying for us overseas that get injured.
I'll take the flak for this, it was my suggestion.
I was just trying to make a point but somehow I'm speaking a completely different language, sorry my ignant'
is a little rusty.
According to a former Marine who, for at least the last 4 years, has been living off tax dollars (WICrippler in case you absolutely need me to s-p-e-l-l i-t o-u-t f-o-r y-o-u.) The more taxes one pays the less freedom one has, right?
Also WICrippler pointed out that everyone has a personal responsibility to take care of themselves so as not to waste medical resources thus driving up medical costs (let me know if you didn't quite understand that, would you?). Further, if one is poor or doesn't have medical benefits of their own, they should be even more carefull with regard to being responsible enough to take care of themselves (you can read english right? Of course! Just let me know if for some reason you can't make the words sound right in your head okay?).
With that in mind allow me to tell you a story about a factory job I had in high school, you know, high school? That kind of school which is public and funded almost exclusivley by tax dollars? Except that's not the case in the days of late because of folks like WICrippler, RightOfCenter, rivrat and you who think that taxes are B.S. even though you all probably went to public school but now you have the privilige to pay for a private school for your children so screw the folks that don't have that same privilige.
Anyway, I was working full time for $5.00 an hour at a factory where all the machines were run on compressed air making window locks. I know real rewarding :roll: . I didn't have benefits for myself and I hadn't made it through the rediculous 90 day waiting period to get them through the job I had (Are you getting this? again let me know

).
One day at the start of my shift (I worked second shift and went to school in the day) An air compressor hose came loose from one of the machines. It started to whip around from the air and brained the guy working on the machine with it's metal tip (let me know if you can't fully imagine the scene). The guy went down, I got up and left.... That was looked down upon by my boss and mother but hey, I was being reponsible to not get an injury and waste medical resources right?
Needless to say, WICrippler's logic, as stated before, was not lost on me. Thus I concluded that 'hey, he was a Marine and I paid him to live the military life which he chose as a path in his life, knowing full well that it was a government job and a potentially dangerous one even in times of peace'.
Now, I had no say in whether or not he should be allowed to join the Marines and that maybe the bigger, faster, possibly more psychologically well adjusted guy behind him 'deserved' it more. However, the bottom line is, I didn't know just who the heck is getting my tax money, I mean, I know the country needs protection and the Marines are perfect for that but just what kind of people are going to get in? Are they going to be able to handle multi billion dollar equipment that I personally paid for? And if not are they going to get wounded in the process?
I know the Marines do everything they can to make sure that their personnel are going to come back safe, just look at the low number of casualties, only 40,000 + maimed soldiers and over 3,000 dead. But hey, I didn't have a say on how the gov. recruited these guys. Maybe if not only I, but all of us did, there'd be less casualties to pay for with my hard earned property (still with me?).
I mean, with all the wisdom I've gleaned here in this debate, this is just an ourageous theivery of my personal right to have property. So, I propose that these 'Marines' get an hourly minimum wage and that they have to get their own health insurance
IF they so choose. Also they should have to purchase, or forage for, their own food I mean what am I? A bank? They did it back in the civil war days why not now?
Now that I've explained myself you simply
must agree with me. I mean the logic is the same as rivrat's, RightOfCenter's and even our ex Marine freind WICrippler's. If you don't agree, do you mean to tell me that just because
you all think that this
should be paid for by that evil socialist theivery known as taxes I should
have to!?